Calaway Park
We live in Calgary, where the weather can change at the drop of a hat and the summer is NOT that long, so when we get the opportunity to have a day out with great weather we seize it! Not long ago, we decided to check out Calaway Park. We hadn't been in a while because it is very expensive for a family to have a day out anywhere, and with my kids being so little I wasn't sure it was worth the money - boy was I mistaken! Parking: was a NIGHTMARE - but that is to be expected on one of the first nice weekends of the year! It's much more easily navigated than the Stampede. I drove around for approximately 20 minutes looking for a spot before finding one almost at the very back of the lot. The kids and I don't mind walking. Lineups: were not that bad - the worst was the roller coaster which only B (8) could ride. Aside from the hour we spent in the lineup for the roller coaster, the lineups were not longer than 15 minutes. The rides that the kids could go on w